I have friends who are pulling out their hair because they bought off-brand stuff and can't make it work right.

I don't mind that approach for someone who is quite knowledgeable.

BUT,

Brand name computers that are not clearance items, and run Win 7 (64 or 32 bit) with 4 gigs of memory and a 500 gig hard drive are to me the best purchase.

If I was in the market right now I'd be looking at something like this HP, mind you this is the CDN price in our bucks $599.00

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06a/12454-12454-4144617-4144618-4144618-5035316.html

Because the computer is built into the display along with the DVD optical drive there is no tower. I see this becoming a wide spread standard.

John Conley
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